I can’t be funny if my feet don’t feel right.
BILLY CRYSTALI started examining history and then everything related to the theater. History, art, all the other studies, if I could link them into the theater, then it became alive for me. It just opened up my eyes.
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I started examining history and then everything related to the theater. History, art, all the other studies, if I could link them into the theater, then it became alive for me. It just opened up my eyes.
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You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.
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I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he’s too old to go anywhere.
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There’s only, I think, in life, three things that I do pretty well: Performing, I still can field ground balls, and I make nice kids.
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It is better to look good than to feel good.
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Don’t give up your power.
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When I’ve gotten criticism, it’s that it’s too long, too soft, didn’t hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, What’s he doing hitting the government?
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[I did impressions] of relatives because I heard so many different sounds. My dad was in the music business and of course my uncle was a giant [music producer], but my dad in particular had the house filled with these Dixieland jazz stars.
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I always came away thinking “I’d like to see her more,” you know? And then when [Parental Guidance] was ready to be cast, we thought – Bette [Midler]. So we called her.
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I’d like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.
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I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.
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When you realize you want to invest the rest of your lifestyle with somebody, you want the rest of your life to commence as quickly as achievable.
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It’s money. I remember it from when I was single
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I have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.
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